• smeg@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    According to the feedback, I just shut down this project, perhaps permanently. Sorry for all the harm I caused.

    Anyone know if this harm was anything more than just hitting API limits?

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      3 days ago

      There’s a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon

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        2 days ago

        People are upset that the things they posted publicly are viewable publicly?

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          The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.

          This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.

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      3 days ago

      I have no idea.I tried yesterday to figure out what that ment…but the original site is down.